Cheops: the hunt for exoplanets
A powerful space telescope, due for launch from Europe?s Spaceport in French Guiana on 17 December 2019, will give scientists a new insight into the nature of planets outside our Solar System.
Cheops, the ‘Characterising Exoplanet Satellite’, will study known exoplanets that are orbiting bright stars.
More than 4000 exoplanets have been discovered and Cheops will be targeting known planets between the size of Earth and Neptune, to find out more about their composition, internal structure and whether they might be able to support life.
Cheops’ mission is a partnership between ESA and Switzerland with additional contributions from Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK.
This film examines the nature of exoplanets, the challenge of exoplanet exploration and features the Cheops Science Operations Centre in Geneva, it includes interviews with Didier Queloz, Chair of the Cheops Science Team and 2019 Nobel Physics Laureate, University of Geneva; Willy Benz, Cheops Principal Investigator, University of Bern; and Matthias Beck, Cheops Ground Segment Manager, University of Geneva).
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Very cool.
One day they I'll find life on exo planet…and esa post that video in YouTube …waiting for that moment#ESA??
Thank You very much.
Milioni di galassie che ci aspettano per l'eternit? (?); c'? posto per milioni di generazioni…altrimenti, che senso ha Il fatto che ce n? siano tante? Andromeda si unir? alla nostra e former? " nuovi cieli e nuove terre"(?). C'? una verit? che unisce: scienza e antiche rivelazioni…ci vuole solo ' pazienza '.
Is a gasgiant bigger than Jupiter still a planet or is it a binary star system with one brown dwarf star?
O espect?culo destes planetas extra solares, formas, cores, os estados os que os definem …no fundo estamos interligados!!
H? mais de 101 raz?es…para os mist?rios que poder?o ser desvendados a breve prazo ?se ci?ncia e o ser humano em si ? n?o entrarem em choque ? Ficamos ? espera das descobertas neste Universo surpreendente!!
Can't wait for the launch!
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I would love to visit in Geneva!